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Read chapter 19, section 1. Answer the following questions.
1. What did the US & USSR disagree about at Yalta?
2. What is the purpose of the United Nations?
3. What did the US & USSR each want from the post-WWII world?
4. What other nations became communist in the 1940s?
5. What did Churchill mean when he said that “an iron curtain has descended on Europe?”
6. What is containment?
7. What is the Truman Doctrine?
HUSH
Use the sites below to explain how FOUR of the following events contributed to the Cold War & Americans’ feelings of anxiety post-WWII. (3 or 4 sentences for each should suffice.)
Choose from:
- Creation of West Germany and East Germany
- The Berlin Airlift
- The creation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact
- The Soviets developping an atomic bomb
- The launching of Sputnik
- The U-2 incident (no, not the band!)
- China became a communist nation
- HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
- Federal Civil Defense Administration
http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/coldwar/a/originscoldwar.htm
http://history1900s.about.com/od/greateventsofthecentury/a/cwglossary.htm
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/JFK+in+History/The+Cold+War+Page+2.htm
http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/page2
APUSH
- Bring in REAL GLUE. And other supplies for your fort.
- Keep working on your research paper/DBQ.
